DC attorney general presses Zuckerberg

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine’s (D) lawyers argued in a new court filing that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should be required to answer questions in a data privacy case.

The city sued Facebook for allegedly misleading individuals about who can access their private data when they sign up for the platform, Reuters reported.

The allegations began in 2018 when a political consulting firm did not tell customers what information was collected on Facebook and how it was shared.

In the Feb. 15 court filing, the lawyers said they should be allowed to “probe [Zuckerberg’s] and the company’s knowledge about Cambridge Analytica’s actions and his decision to act or, as the case was, fail to act upon learning about it,” according to Reuters.